Deftones Aim For More Stephen Carpenter Input On Next Album

While speaking with Revolver, Deftones frontman Chino Moreno had the following to say of his intentions for the band’s next album and the creative process:

“We might start writing music. I’m thinking of going in the next couple months and staying with Stephen for a few days. Trying to think of different ways of writing music from scratch.

On our last record, he didn’t have as much to do with the writing process as I would have liked for him to have. The idea this time is to just go hang out with him for a couple weeks at his house and just record him playing guitar, take some of the riffs, whatever he makes, organize stuff.

But I really feel like his riffs, his guitar playing, what he does is one of the most, if not the most important part of Deftones, what we do. Those riffs and the way that Abe plays drums, that’s the essence of what we do and I just want to bring that to the forefront.”